CHRIS CRUCIAL: Summer Fridays 🏖️

PLUS: The most popular sodas!

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It’s officially summer for me. (My kids’ last day of school was yesterday.)

And I have been thinking for a while about a way to make the Friday edition of “Chris Crucial” a little bit more, well, fun this summer. Because, honestly, I can only take so much serious news in a week. I get overwhelmed. I can only imagine how you feel reading it!

So, for the summer — aka between now and Labor Day — I am going to do something different with the Friday edition of “Chris Crucial.” I am going to make it a political trivia quiz!

I’ve been doing this over at my all-sports Substack “The Replay” and people seem to dig it. So, let’s do this! Answers are at the bottom of this post. And have a wonderful weekend.

1. Which president also served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

2. Who is the only president to be born on July 4?

3. Alexander Graham Bell tried desperately to help save the life of which president who'd been shot?

4. Who was the first president to live in the White House?

5. Who was the first president to have a telephone on his desk?

6. The Electoral College in the United States is made up of how many electors?

7. How many U.S. presidents were only children?

8. Who was the first president to be born in the United States?

9. How many Senate seats are on the ballot this November?

10. Ulysses S. Grant established the FIRST national park. What was it called?

ANSWERS

1. William Howard Taft

2. Calvin Coolidge

3. James Garfield

4. John Adams

5. Herbert Hoover

6. 538

7. NONE!

8. Martin Van Buren

9. 34 (23 Democratic seats, 11 Republican seats)

10. Yellowstone

NOTABLE QUOTABLE

“My fellow Americans, I refuse to believe, I simply refuse to believe that America's greatness is a thing of the past.” — President Joe Biden, speaking in Normandy on Friday

ONE GOOD CHART

This chart, via Flowing Data, shows Dr. Pepper’s popularity is surging. Which is good — since it’s the best soda out there.

SONG OF THE DAY

Pedro the Lion (aka David Bazan) is in the midst of releasing a series of albums documenting his life. The latest — out today — is called “Santa Cruz.” This is “Spend Time.”

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